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"Steven Jones's informative and engaging volume traces the development of major religious school movements and the surprisingly common controversies and criticisms that have swirled about them--whether Roman Catholic schools in the nineteenth century or Protestant day schools and home schooling in the twentieth. With the growth of Islamic schools, which Jones carefully examines, Americans will once again have an opportunity to thoughtfully ponder these matters." -- James C. Carper, Department of Educational Studies, University of South Carolina

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One Public and Private Schooling in America
Chapter Two The Place of Schooling in Religious Communities
Chapter Three The Democratic Case Against Religious Schooling
Chapter Four The Democratic Case For Religious Schooling
Chapter Five Joining Americas Civil Religion
Chapter Six Islamic Schooling in America
Chapter Seven Conclusion: Moving the Debate Forward

About the Author

Steven L. Jones is Associate Professor of Sociology at Grove City College. He is co-editor of Church-State Issues in America Today (Praeger, 2007) and the author of Religious Schooling in America (Praeger, 2008).

Reviews

The best things about this book are that it is full of detailed information—names, dates, percentages, and such—and it is well written, well organized, up-to-date, and easy to read… Recommended. General readers and undergraduate students.
*Choice*

In this ambitious work, the author has shown himself to be fair, exact, and responsive to alternate views of education in America. He has undertaken an extremely difficult and even volatile study with tact and equanimity. In these pages he has presented the educational terrain in a way that should garner him appreciation and respect from public, religious and home-schools alike. In these seven discrete chapters he presents us with the historical background which enables the reader to understand the many facets of differing views of how America's children should and can be educated.
*Catholic Library World*